By Mavis M. duCille
Scripture reading: Hebrews 7:24-26
PROPHET – Reveals or declares God’s will
PRIEST – To take away the guilt of sin
KING – Having authority and dominion
Union with Christ and participation in His Spirit exalts us to the state with Christ as Prophet, Priest, and King.
“But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens.” Hebrews 7:24-26.
Down through the ages, God used a nation, a family or an individual to establish the type of the Great High Priest – Jesus Christ, after the order of Melchizedec, greater than the Levitical Priesthood or even Abraham himself. He holds His priesthood unchangeably – HE LIVES FOREVERMORE; therefore, He saves to the uttermost: COMPLETELY, PERFECTLY, FINALLY AND FOR ALL TIME AND ETERNITY.
Through the power of the Life of Christ, there is overcoming of sin, oppression, depression and every attack of the enemy. Daily drawing from the source of spiritual life will emancipate the believer from the depravity of fallen man, and establish a disposition of holiness within the soul.
The many and varied conflicts are to bring us nearer to Christ, that the soul may be generated by the Spirit – immersed into His love, fellowship and His LIFE to become that NEW CREATURE. The Creator must be allowed to do the creative work on the soul to make it eternal as the spirit, so that His LIFE dominates and manifests itself within all of our being.
Christ therefore is the source of PURITY and POWER, through which the believer finds healing and purification for the inner man.
(Excerpt from Nuggets for the Needy, pages 63-64)
Thought for today: Union with Christ and participation in His Spirit exalts us to the state with Christ as Prophet, Priest, and King.
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